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pj_costello

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pj_costello··on What Analyzing 50 Brand Guides Taught Us About Building a Lasting Company
"20% of all companies stuck to Helvetica for their font face"

I'm really curious about the lesser known fonts people really like since Helvetica and Arial are so common.

pj_costello··on San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings
This bill is symbolic, unlikely to spur much development.

Either way, I'm all for solar, but it typically isn't the most cost effective way to reduce carbon emissions or reliance on heavy polluting power.

For now, much more effective to simply require more stringent energy efficiency measures. Cheaper. Faster.

On a side note, solar PV production isn't as bad in SF as you might think with the fog. You can definitely hit a 15- 18% AC annual avg. capacity factor, orders of magnitude better than East Coast installs, and pretty cost effective sans govt. incentives given high cost of electricity out here. Lot of good performance estimate tools, out there, but NREL's PVWatts is pretty good for back of the envelope estimates: http://pvwatts.nrel.gov/

As some context, I was an economist focused on solar for a number of years.

pj_costello··on Publishers Must Adapt to a “Distributed First” Model
Facebook Instant Articles and Google AMP are accelerating the decline in website ad revenue. Will be interesting to see what new business models emerge - paywalls will just hurt growth even more for most top publishers.
pj_costello··on Media Websites Battle Faltering Ad Revenue and Traffic
The writing is on the wall, websites are in decline, NYT lost 50% of home page traffic in just 2 years: http://blog.naytev.com/publishers-must-adapt/
pj_costello··on What is BuzzFeed, really?
great thread on this very idea of content junk food: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11475367 and http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/10/twitter-ev-will...